Cleaning device



H. T. SCHNEIDER. CLEANING DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 13. 1920.

1 348, 748 Patented Aug. 3, 1920.

(Juowwtoz UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERMAN T. SCHNEIDER, OF GARNER, IOWA.

CLEANING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 3, 1920.

Application filed February 13, 1920. Serial No. 358,488.

tion, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain improvements in cleaning devices and has relation more particularly to a device of this general character and especially adapted for use in connection with the radiator of a horse shoe type as is generally employed in connection with hot air furnaces, and it is an object of the invention to provide a novel and improved cleaning device which may be effectively employed for the removal of ashes, soot, dust, or other matter that may accumulate within the radiator.

It is also an object of the invention to provide a novel and improved device of this general character including a flexible or pliable handle member provided at one end with a pair of oppositely directed and lung edly connected wings, foldable or movable one toward the other when the device is inserted within the radiator or other flue to be cleaned and which wings open outwardly upon reverse movement of the device to a position whereby the same operate to effectively scrape or clean out sediment which may be collected within the radiator or flue.

The invention :consists in the details of construction and in the combination and arrangemcnt of the several parts of my improved device whereby certain important advantages are attained and the device rendered simpler, expensive and otherwise more convenient and advantageous for use, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

The novel features of my invention will hereinafter be definitely claimed.

In order that my invention may be the better understood, 1 will now proceed to describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 is a diagrammatic view illustrating a cleaning device constructed in accordance with an embodiment of my invention;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary View in top plan of my improved device with the wings in folded condition;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary view partly in top plan and partly in section of my improved device as herein embodied with thewings at the limit of their outward movement; 7'

Fig. d is fragmentary view in side .elevation of my improved device with the wings in their folded position; and Fig. 5 is a view in front elevation of my improved device as herein disclosed with the wings at the limit oftheir outward movement.

As disclosed in the accompanying drawings, R denotes a conventional type of horse shoe radiator now generally employed in connection with hot air furnaces and which radiator is provided with the clean-out opening 1.

My improved device comprises an elongated flexible or pliable handle member H preferably of spring steel, and which is pro vided at one end with a hand grasp G of any desired type whereby the device may be readily and conveniently operated.

The opposite end portion of the handle member if is riveted or otherwise secured to a substantially rigid body or plate B. The outer end portion of the body or plate is provided with a transversely disposed sleeve or hearing 2, preferably integrally formed in said body or plate.

Disposed through the bearing or sleeve 2 is a pintle member 3. The opposite end portions of the pintle member 3 are disposed through the overlapping knuckles ca ried by the inner longitudinal marginal portions of the wings W. In the present embodiment of my invention, the wings TV are substantially oblong in form with their longitud'nal axes disposed in the same general direction as the sleeve or bearing 2. ll elded or otherwise secured to the outer face of the sleeve or bearing 2 and at substantially the central portion thereof is a central part of an elongated rod 5. The rod is disposed substantially at right angles to the pintle member 3 and is of such length as to have its opposite end portions extend slightly beyond the outer longitudinal margins of the wings TV when said wings are in their full extended position and which position is determined by contaet of the wings W with the opposite end portions of the rod itself. The ends of the rod 5 are rounded, as at a. lVhen it is desired t clean out a radiator of a horse shoe type, the body or plate B is forced through 25 7 "their full open'po i the clean-out opening and into channels or fines of the radiator. As the Wings are 'forcedinwardly, they assume, due to the resistance offered by the sediment within the channel or flue, a folded position and thereby causes a minimum of disturbance,

such as spreadingor pushing the sediment.

Upon a slight forward pull or strain, the wings WV meeting with the resistance offered by the sediment within the channel or flue,

open to their full width and a continued pull upon thewings, through the instru- 'mentalityof the handle member H, will bring-the loadto the clean-out opening for its final disposal. The flexibility or pliability ofthe handle member H permits the wings W to have proper travel within a rfiue or channel of the radiator- By having to die out.

the rod 5 extend beyond the outer longitudinal margins of the wings W, the rounded ends a of said rod 5 will ride over rough sides of the channel or fine of the radiator and at the same time,*assures a positioning ofthe device withinthe channel or flue to permit the wings to assume In radiators of a horse shoe type, the collection of sediment therein reduces the heating efficiency of the radiator but with myimproved device, the sediment collecting within the radiator may be readily removed without the necessity of causing the fire lishedin practice that my improved device thoroughly and efl'ectively cleans the channel or flue It has also been fully estabin the radiator of this particular type. c 7 V v r 7 From the foregoing description, it 1s thoughtfto be vobvious that a device conmation of the several parts herein shown r 1ncarry1ng out my invent on 1n practice except as hereinafter claimed.

1 claim:

A cleaning device of the character'described comprising a handle having a bearmg on one end, a pair of w1ngs,-each wing having a knuckle on one side thereof, and

7 a recess in its intermediate portion for the reception of a. portion of said bearing, said :knuckles being disposed in alinement with each other and the bearing, a pintle disposed through-the bearing and the knuckles, and a rod secured tosaid bearing and extending beyond the bearing in right angular relation thereto, whereby pivotal movement of said wings in one direction is limited.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature.

HERMAN T; SCHNEIDER 

